Zelda’s best spinoff turned out to be a blueprint for gaming’s future
via nintendo.fandom.com
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Early on in its history, Nintendo didn’t really care what happened with its IP. That sounds impossible today, but the 1980s were a different time. Nintendo would hand Mario off to Interplay so it could put him into Checkers or let a group of musicians create a Donkey Kong musical record that invented foundational lore […]